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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published July 1954
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index revised with information from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Stone Man!"

Pencils Harry Anderson
Inks Harry Anderson

5 page story "The Snake!"

Synopsis A man takes one of his wife's sister's pet cobras out of the snake pit to kill his wife, but even though he tries to frame the sister, the police get wise to him.
Pencils Robert McCarty ?
Inks Howard Nostrand ?

2 page text story "Trapped in the Web"

Letters typeset

5 page story "The Stone Men!"

Synopsis A diver finds out first hand that the human-like coral figures standing guard over an underwater treasure grotto are the bodies of unfortunate treasure seekers paralyzed by the fish and encrusted over by the animal life.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

4 page story "Too Many Corpses!"

Synopsis A miner finds their drilling has made its way into an old cemetery and, while his work crew refuse to violate the sanctity of the burial site, he pushes on ahead. The roof collapses on him and the workmen now consider the tunnel his grave, and leave him buried alive.
Pencils Hy Rosen
Inks Hy Rosen

4 page story "Crime Wave"

Synopsis A thug in Chile gets the idea of forcing the weather man to tell the people there is a tidal wave incoming so that he may plunder their homes when they seek shelter further inland. He carries out his plan but, unknown to him, there actually is a tidal wave incoming and it drowns him and his gang.
Genre suspense
Pencils Martin Rosenthall [as Martin Thall] (signed)
Inks Martin Rosenthall [as Martin Thall] (signed)
Notes info supplied by Craig Delich 9/05

5 page story "The Man on the Moon"

Synopsis A robot pilot gets a rocket so bravely to the moon in hazardous conditions that the humans think he is one of them until they see they tattoo identification on his arm.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte